Word: gusto
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...better than hold its own, with an exclusive of Ike at the Morrison Hotel breakfast and a fascinating scene in which Nixon and Rockefeller met for the first time in Chicago, Rocky wearing a Nixon button as big as his smile, patting "Dick" on the back with college-reunion gusto and proclaiming that "it will be a pleasure" to campaign for him. "If this isn't love, it'll have to do until the real thing comes along," observed Brinkley to Huntley. Once again NBC clearly outperformed CBS, and the ratings proved it; of the 14 million viewers...
...shelter that the troops were almost constantly exposed. Cannon and shells were hauled by hand to summits where only the native goats were at home, and since the Montenegrin army had no stretcher bearers, the casualties often simply crawled off to die. The troops were spectacularly brave, attacking with gusto at point-blank range and accepting decimation with stoicism bordering on indifference. Before one attack, volunteers rushed forward to blow the Turkish wire with bombs. Gary saw them advance, old men who had volunteered because they felt that it did not matter if they were killed. Half of them were...
Cannonball is a brilliant improviser and he stitches his agile figures with a warmth of tone, a turbulence, and a gusto that is the envy of every other saxman in the business. In their most popular number-This Here, by Pianist Bobby Timmons-the quintet pours cool brass over the driving beat in long, looping lines that seem to glide through the roof and into the night...
...warmth of the play's humor is the lustier for the chill in the air, and Falstaff is almost the nimbler with his fortunes in decline. As in Part I, Eric Berry plays Falstaff with, fine, resourceful gusto; among his playmates, Gerry Jedd's Mistress Quickly, Franklin Cover's Silence and Ray Reinhardt's Pistol are all good, and John Heffernan's Shallow something better. The time-honored comic scenes keep their blend of rust and magic. The royal scenes, full of a rhetoric that needs a humanizing voice, fare a good deal less well...
...Sings Irish Folk Songs and Ballads (Spoken Arts). "Sings" is the nonoperative word here; Irish Playwright Behan growls, gurgles and lurches in and out of key like a drunk on a swaying bus ("I usually talk nicer," he concedes, "when I have me teeth"). Nevertheless, he performs with engaging gusto and humor, and with considerably more conviction than most of his folk-styled competition. The numbers include On the 18th Day of November, The Captains and the Kings, I Am a Happy English Lad, rendered in a wildly improbable parody of an Oxford accent. Some of Behan's barroom...